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A Home Run From ‘Dad Matters’

I saw a fantastic post on Focus on the Family’s Dad Matters blog that I want to share with you. It deals with an inspiring

When a Rapper Goes to Rehab

For Seattle rapper Ben Haggerty—better known by his stage name, Macklemore—2013 has been a breakthrough year. His infectiously silly (but unfortunately profanity-laced) ode to the

Does It Matter Who Plays Whom?

“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” Or maybe it should be, “I’m not a writer, but I post on Plugged In’s

Movie Monday: 42

Even though he’s been gone for more than 40 years, Jackie Robinson can still smash one out of the park. The baseball biopic 42 circled

Roopa Raju, Annika and Not Today

Roopa Raju began working roughly 10 hours a day as a rag picker when she was just a little girl. What’s a rag picker? Well,

Reunited. Thanks, Internet!

What would you do if you found out you had an identical twin sibling on the other side of the world that you never knew

Sex and the Middle School

I went to a meeting at my daughter’s middle school on Monday that I really didn’t want to go to. No, she hadn’t done anything

Movie Monday: Evil Dead

We must open the book. It’s frightening, I know. Its pages likely hold profane secrets—secrets so terrible that we hesitate to mention them. And yet,

Roger Ebert: 1942-2013

Film critic Roger Ebert died yesterday, just a couple of days after he announced he was taking a step back from his job to battle

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